PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee is scheduled to hold an October 30 public hearing on House Bill 1607 (Borowski-D-Delaware), a comprehensive rewrite of the state electronics waste recycling law ( sponsor summary ). When she announced the legislation in July, Rep. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Arnold & Porter partner Raqiyyah Pippins , who co-leads the firm’s Consumer Products & Retail industry team, was named to The National Law Journal' s 2021 "DC Rising Stars" list.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

by Eleanor Putnam-Farr, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University Boulder, Colorado, passed stricter regulations against plastic bags at the beginning of 2024, banning them from all retail stores.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Campbell Ranch proposed more than a decade ago to build 4,000 residences for 12,000 people, a commercial and retail center and two golf courses on 8,000 acres in the mountains east of the city, according to planning documents. The law also requires developers to replenish aquifers with the same amount of water that they withdraw. .

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing. It also prohibits a producer or retailer from offering rebates or gifts in exchange for purchasing fossil fuel products.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

The series will dive into the material, financial, and equity concerns prompting the law, the practical design challenges for its implementation, and the ideological divisions between its supporters and critics. The Legislature’s stated intent in shifting a portion of rates from volumetric charges (i.e., So, who will pay how much?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

Restructuring generally addresses one of two parts of the electricity industry: generation and retail. Retail restructuring focuses on giving end-user consumers choices as to whom they purchase electricity from. Generation restructuring focuses on creating competition in the generation of electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to the National Retail Federation , around 20 percent of shopping occurs during November and December. The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address, in which she endorsed a suite of progressive environmental policies including product stewardship laws governing the paper and packaging industry, the New York Legislature has introduced a bill targeting environmental sustainability disclosures in the fashion and apparel industry.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

because they are not complying with the state’s electronics recycling law. ( Under state law, manufacturers of new covered devices-- such as televisions, laptop and desktop computers, tablets, etc.-- PA Bulletin, page 6009 ).

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. Additionally, the agencies found that the amendments could result in long-term cost savings.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects. These bills move Oregon to the forefront of climate action.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 31, 2022

This gap in regulation is a loophole that dollar stores are using to sell products that contain high levels of lead – and not break any laws,” said Cassie Barker, Toxics Senior Program Manager at Environmental Defence. There is no safe limit on lead. Children’s products sh ould not contain this hazardous substance.”.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 15, 2022

EPA is hosting virtual feedback sessions to provide input on new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law initiatives about end-of-life battery collection and labeling. This includes: battery manufacturers; battery retailers; battery recyclers; … Continue reading Webinar: Development of Battery Collection Best Practices and Labeling Feedback?.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 16, 2023

Transitioning to new cooling systems that comply with federal and state laws can cost retailers $1 million or more per store. Read the full story at Grocery Dive. But delaying action could also be expensive, experts say.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

VPPs could also save money for customers in the long-term, helping to maintain an adequate supply of power without requiring the construction and maintenance of new and expensive power transmission and distribution infrastructure.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 18, 2023

She works with clients in a wide variety of industries and has experience in the container leasing, technology, drug/device, healthcare, semiconductor equipment manufacturing and timber management, retail, engineering and construction industries.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 17, 2023

He advises both landlords and tenants across a range of industry sectors with a focus on office and retail spaces, and handles new leases, work agreements, expansions, subleases, assignments and other lease-related documentation. He received his AB from Princeton University, cum laude.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. Below is a short summary of the key features of these amendments.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These upsetting incidents highlight the disproportionate impact of toxic exposures on vulnerable and marginalized communities and the dire need for increased disclosure and transparency in our toxics laws. . Retailers don’t ensure product safety. This staggering statistic points to the dire need for toxics law reform.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

COVID has accelerated trends relating to the sale of products and services online, from formerly brick-and-mortar-only retailers moving online to product manufacturers creating their own online sales websites or deciding which online platform to offer their products. Auto-renewal laws (FTC and various states). Online user reviews.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Here I’ll ask whether expanding environmental review analyses to consider socioeconomic impacts will really advance more equitable application of environmental law. But it’s not clear at all that changing the law to incorporate socioeconomic impacts analysis in CEQA would actually benefit disempowered communities in California.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

They essentially call around and ask gas traders what they’re buying and selling gas for at a particular hub, and they use that to construct a price index that becomes the pricing term in the contracts for natural gas in the wholesale and retail markets. Why is the CPUC investigating when it doesn’t regulate natural gas producers?

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Brag

MAY 21, 2021

Bergeson will join the Retail Industry Leaders Association’s (RILA) Retail Compliance Center (RCC) on June 10, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. In this webinar, attendees will learn: What TSCA is and why it matters to retailers; What retailers need to know about their products; and. What steps to take after the webinar.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The PUC’s Office of Administrative Law Judge presided over a mix of telephonic and in-person hearings – a total of 620 evidentiary hearings and 32 public input hearings. In 2023, the PUC Law Bureau regularly represented the Commission in an average of 45 open state and federal court appeals each quarter.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, stations often sit on corner lots at major intersections, making them prime retail spots. Those sites may be governed by state and federal hazardous waste laws. Redeveloping gas stations for other uses may cause another problem, however.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

On December 16, DEP’s Solid Waste Advisory and Recycling Fund Advisory Committees are scheduled to meet and on the agenda are presentations by DEP on its recommendations for changing the law to make Act 101 Recycling Programs more effective and fixing the very broken Electronics Waste Recycling Program.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

VPPs could also save money for customers in the long-term, helping to maintain an adequate supply of power without requiring the construction and maintenance of new and expensive power transmission and distribution infrastructure.

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JANZEN AG

DECEMBER 12, 2023

AI has upset the traditional legal understanding of what it means to own a creative work, such as a movie, book, or article, which are protected from plagiarism by copyright laws. For decades, there were fewer and fewer choices for farmers as one merger after another consolidated equipment OEMs, cooperatives, and ag retailers.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” Federal Rule 4(k)(2) provides that “[f]or a claim that arises under federal law, serving a summons or filing a waiver of service establishes personal jurisdiction over a defendant if [] the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of general jurisdiction,” among other conditions.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” Federal Rule 4(k)(2) provides that “[f]or a claim that arises under federal law, serving a summons or filing a waiver of service establishes personal jurisdiction over a defendant if [] the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of general jurisdiction,” among other conditions.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

DOE’s draft Hydrogen Roadmap provides this helpful graph: Apart from petroleum refining and fertilizer manufacturing, DOE reports, hydrogen is used for 50,000 fuel cell forklifts, 50 open retail hydrogen fueling stations, 70 fuel cell buses, over 13,000 fuel cell vehicles, and 500 MW of fuel cells for stationary/backup power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law dedicated $3 billion to a battery material processing program and $3 billion for domestic battery manufacturing and recycling; $200 million to a battery design, recycling, and reuse program; $110 million for battery collection and recycling programs; $15 million on retailer battery collection programs; and (..)

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Types of Consumer Laws Regulating PFAS Generally, the states that have adopted consumer product regulations have enacted laws that fall in to the following major categories: Banning “Intentionally Added” PFAS in Consumer Products. Which States have Adopted Consumer Product Laws Related to PFAS? California A.B.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TODAY 1:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers. Million In 2022 To Influence Health Insurance, Health Care Laws In PA -- York Daily Record: Mask Mandates? formal notice) Read more here.

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